The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-07-09
IDAHO NEWS.
Bear Lake County.

Ed. Harrison has mill on his
ranch at Oxford with a flow of
water and natural gas. Heproposes
to utilize the gas fer heating and
lighting purposes.
Paris has a base ball avenue.
Wire fences cause considerable
havoc among rowing stock. Several
valuable animals have been badly
injured.
Owyhee County.
The family residence of J. H.
CocherOn on Silker creek was
consumed by fire last week. The
house had just been built and most
of the household furniture was also
destroyed. Cause little child,
lighted candle and a curtain.
The man supposed to be Olsen
was last heard of near Jordan creek.
The party searching for him has
returned to Silver City.
Bingham County.
The locks on the cells of the
county Jail at Blackfoot are being
replaced by new ones. At the time
of the late escape one of the pris-
oners captured the keys and no
trace can be found of them.
The Reporter says that during a
severe thunder storm, a bolt OF
lighting struck and killed valu-
able horse and so severely shocked
a man named Shannon that the
electricity in him could be distinctly
felt by taking hold of his hand.
Lemhi County.
"Col" Snow was arrested for sell
ing whisky to Indians and held in
81 900 bonds to await the action of
the grand jury. He failed to furn:
ish the bonds and didn't wait fol
grand jury. He sawed hole
out of the jail floor and gopherod
out to liberty.
William Haley and William
Busby, two of the escapes from the
Lemhi county Jail, were drowned in
the Salmon river. Thomas Gilleran
the third prisoner, succeeded in
scrambling out of the water and is
lodging the sheriff, who is in pur-
suit Of him.
Nez Perez County.
A. d. Sanders of Moscow has
been held on a charge of man
slaughter, damaging evidence being
ELECTED that he caused the death Of
Mrs. Hoffman by producing an
abortion.
George Clark, a member of a sur
veying party, was knocked off {
bluff, fell prependicularly 40 fee
and slid 80 feet further into thick
ct of thorns. He escaped with a
badly broken shoulder and will bt
sent to his home in Omaha.
Washington County.
A wagon road from Salubria tC
Ruthburg has been completed.
James Holland caught a SOC
pound sturgeon in Snake river
near Sturgill bar, last week. He
accomplished the task with q lasso
and some rocks.
Ada County.
Rev. a. Thompson was arrested
at Emmett on the charge of as
saulting a young boy who, lacking
other means of amusement, "ket
tied" a jackass belonging to the
parson. The jury failed to agree
and more or less spite work appears
to have caused the arrest.
Thomas, eldest son of Hon. D
Murray, living at Emmett, commit
ted suicide two weeks ago. He left
home with the intent of bringing
back some stock and when found
must have been dead a week.
Cassia County.
Last week Peter Olsen turned W
in Cassia county. A rancher or
Rock creek captured him and
mounting the much looked for
man on horse took him to Albion
forty miles distant. He was turned
over to the sheriff, who furnished
the poor tramp with square meal
drink and a roll of court plaster
to hide the saddle marks and then
sent him adrift. His captor was
much Disguised and had fully
planned how he would invest the biz